Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

BREAKING: Birmingham Anchor Chris Sign Dies at 45 (Broke the Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting)
ADWEEK ^ | 12 JUNE 2021 | KEVIN ECK

Posted on 06/12/2021 7:29:04 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Birmingham, Ala. anchor Chris Sign was found dead by first responders Saturday morning. He was 45.

Sign first worked at ABC affiliate WBMA between 2000 and 2005. He came back in 2017 as a weeknight anchor after working as a reporter and then a morning anchor at KNXV in Phoenix for almost 13 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at adweek.com ...


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: arkancide; billclinton; clickbait; clinton; clintoncrimefamily; clintonlynch; localnews; rip; tarmac; tarmacmeeting
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last
To: Jemian

She hasn’t posted since 2016.


21 posted on 06/12/2021 7:47:37 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sign was a member of the 1992 Alabama Crimson Tide National Championship squad. This is shocking news.

Sympathies to his family.


22 posted on 06/12/2021 7:47:39 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: proust

here comes gas_dr...


23 posted on 06/12/2021 7:47:42 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: CatOwner

Well said… That’s been my sentiment exactly.

Rather see the despicable get their Mussolini Moment or Ceacescu Protocol here and now.

I smiled when Ceacescu got his… I still smile when I think of it.


24 posted on 06/12/2021 7:48:51 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Hildebeast never gives up a grudge. Eventually, she gets her victims in the crosshairs.


25 posted on 06/12/2021 7:50:28 PM PDT by twister881
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He seemed to have a lot to live for to commit suicide


26 posted on 06/12/2021 7:51:41 PM PDT by albie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Long knives? DC style?

-PJ

27 posted on 06/12/2021 7:52:53 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rainee

He also wrote a book..
Secret On The Tarmac

There are no coincidences when it involves The Clintoons


28 posted on 06/12/2021 7:54:13 PM PDT by rainee (Trump won)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: CrimsonTidegirl

Yes. He seemed like a great guy. Prayers for his wife and sons.


29 posted on 06/12/2021 7:55:27 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
This begs the question...

Is there depreciation on this type of contract or does it hold its principle value over time?

Maybe a stimulus payment could keep these workers home?

-PJ

30 posted on 06/12/2021 7:56:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Another to add to the clinton body count.


31 posted on 06/12/2021 7:57:41 PM PDT by Trillian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: plain talk

So very sad.

Doesn’t seem like a typical candidate for suicide.

But then, who knows?


32 posted on 06/12/2021 7:57:55 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: petitfour; Jemian

And has repurposed her web site for gardening or sewing or some such. Fortunately all the old Clinton Downside legacy stuff is still there at The Wayback Machine (archive.org).


33 posted on 06/12/2021 7:58:27 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: EEGator

I’m guessing heart attack or drugs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Or made to look that way....


34 posted on 06/12/2021 8:05:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: petitfour; All

That story probably killed his career.

The excerpt pretty much tells the rest:

“Birmingham, Ala. anchor Chris Sign was found dead by first responders Saturday morning. He was 45.

Sign first worked at ABC affiliate WBMA between 2000 and 2005. He came back in 2017 as a weeknight anchor after working as a reporter and then a morning anchor at KNXV in Phoenix for almost 13 years.”

The way career progression works in media for presenters/on-camera reporters/anchors is that you start out in some backwater/podunk little market like, well, Birmingham. If you do well there, they invite you to move to a larger market in a lower level position. In this case, Phoenix. If you keep on at your career, you repeat the cycle over and over until you get to national level or you get told this is as far as the industry will let you go. The only way you go back to a smaller market once you’re an anchor (instead of staying in that or a similar size market, or going to a larger market) is by screwing up in some way or making your boss hate you. The fact that he didn’t stay in that market or get moved to a larger market (there’s perhaps one to perhaps four more ‘steps’ before getting to national level from Phoenix) may indicate that he was told that he was going to have to go back to the junior farm team affiliate because breaking that story meant that he couldn’t stay in Phoenix due to pissing off his bosses. Or their real bosses, the Democratic Party.

Realizing that your career is basically over at the age of 45 has caused no shortage of men to commit suicide.


35 posted on 06/12/2021 8:06:04 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: CatOwner

36 posted on 06/12/2021 8:08:19 PM PDT by caww ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Spktyr

Uh no. He had offers to go to big media and turned them down for his children. He has received many death threats. He moved to Birmingham for safety.


37 posted on 06/12/2021 8:09:23 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: petitfour

You’re going to get death threats any time you do anything in media these days.

Also, moving back would just make the story an indirect career killer. Much like promotions in the military, turning one down except under certain very limited circumstances usually means that no more will be offered to you.

Moving to larger media markets would have meant that he would have had more money and resources to protect his kids, BTW.


38 posted on 06/12/2021 8:12:15 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Media sure leaves out some interesting details.


39 posted on 06/12/2021 8:21:19 PM PDT by Luke21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: petitfour

I remember when Chris stayed in Gulf Shores during Hurricane Opal. It took major courage to stay in a Condo while the Hurricane was pummeling Gulf Shores.

He was one of the best and most unbiased reporters on 33/40.

Prayers for the family.


40 posted on 06/12/2021 8:24:22 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson